Geoffrey Marc Carr (born 1952) is an Australian former professional

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...

footballer who played in the 1970s and administrated in the 1990s and 2000s. He was the CEO of the

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as well as the

New South Wales Rugby League The New South Wales Rugby League Ltd (NSWRL) is an Australian rugby league football competition operator in rugby league in New South Wales, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory and is a member of the Australian Rugby League Co ...

Playing career

Originally from

Grafton, New South Wales Grafton ( Bundjalung: ''Gumbin Gir'') is a city in the Northern Rivers region of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located on the Clarence River, on a floodplain, approximately by road north-northeast of the state capital Sydney. ...

, Carr played first grade in the

NSWRL premiership The New South Wales Rugby League premiership was the first rugby league football club competition established in Australia and contributor to today's National Rugby League. Run by the New South Wales Rugby League (initially named the New Sout ...

with the

St. George Dragons The St. George Dragons are an Australian rugby league, rugby league football club from the St George, Sydney, St George District in Sydney, New South Wales that played in the top level New South Wales Rugby League, New South Wales competition ...

for five seasons between 1970 and 1975. and played in the 1971 Grand Final under mastercoach Jack Gibson.

Administrative career

Carr was appointed secretary of the St. George club in 1989. He later became the club's chief executive, and in 1995 after exploring the possibility of a merger with the Roosters in an attempt to match the turnover of the

Brisbane Broncos The Brisbane Broncos are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in Red Hill, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in April 1987, the Broncos compete in the National Rugby League (NRL) and play their home games at ...

, was sacked by his board. He then joined the ARL and was team manager for Australia in their successful 1995 World Cup campaign. Carr later also worked for the

National Rugby League The National Rugby League (also known as the NRL Telstra Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is a professional rugby league competition in Oceania which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria (state), Victoria, the Austral ...

. Carr became CEO of the ARL in 2000 and was later appointed

chief executive. He announced his retirement from full-time administration in 2013.Carr to stand down as NSWRL CEO
''nrl.com'', 31 May 2013 Carr was awarded the

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in the

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for "service to rugby league."

References

External links

Geoff Carr at yesterdayshero.com.au
1952 births Living people Australian rugby league players St. George Dragons players Australian rugby league administrators Date of birth missing (living people) Rugby league players from Grafton, New South Wales Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Rugby league centres Rugby league wingers 20th-century Australian sportsmen {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-1950s-stub